Electric pen-holder



(No Model.)

G. W. REI'ITLER.

ELECTRIC PEN HOLDER. v No. 381,953. Patented May 1. 1888'.

' m/ VE/VTO/i BY ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PPATEN T OFFICE.

CHARLES W. RElTLER, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

ELECTRIC PEN-HOLDER.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,953, dated May 1,1888. Application filed July 19, 1387. Serial No. 214,699. (No model.)

. to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon,which form apart of this specification. My invention relates to pen-holders havingmeans for generating an electric current to pass through the fingers.

The object of such devices is to obtain the therapeutic advantagesresulting from the action of electric currents on the nerves. The

special trouble which these pen-holders prevent and cure is what ispopularly known as scriveners palsy or writers cramp.

Myinvention consists in an improved device of. the kind referred to, aswill be hereinafter fully describedfand then particularly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l-is a viewin side elevation of apen-holder e1nbodying my improvements, one of the sides on which anelectrode is secured being represented. Fig. 2 is a side elevation also,but of the holder turned on its axis a distance of ninety degrees; andFig. 3 is a'view of a 1on gitudinal section of the holder.

Like letters ofrefercnce indicate corresponding parts in the differentfigures.

Without limiting myself to the identical form of parts shown, I will nowproceed to describe my invent-ion more minutely.

The letter I; designates the usual shaft, the lower end of which is madewith ahole through which a rivet can be passed. Around the lower end ofthe shaft and in the hole I apply an insulating material-as, forexample, rubber or gutta-percha. On opposite sides of this insulatingmaterial I place plates or electrodes of opposite. polarity, a and a,one being of copper and the other of zinc. These plates are then securedin place by means of a rivet, d, of copper passed through the holereferred to. By this construction the current maybe made to pass throughthe entire length of the fingers, or a finger and the thumb, thusderiving the greatest possible therapeutic benefit from the use of thecurrent in such a device.

What I claim is- The herein described improved therapeutic penholder,consisting of a shaft having the electrodes or plates (1. and 0 arrangedand secured on opposite sides thereof, and an insulating materialinterposed between the plates and the pen-holder, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

- CHAS. w. REI'ILER.

\Vitnesses: I

W. D. Donns, H. W. ABNoLD..

